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Please read my other comment on this thread with some links to articles that might interest you. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264078

Krishnamurti has a lot to say about meditation, I also recommend the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita (Jack Hawley translation is very thorough, it's subtitled A Walkthrough for Westerners) and lastly The Upanishads (the one with commentary by Eknath Easwaran is excellent.)

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Great information in that other comment of yours. When you say "yoga", is it what ladies do following a DVD or is it some other form of meditation I am not aware of?

traditionally, yoga referred to both preliminary physical practice ("what ladies do" or hatha yoga) as well as mental practice ("meditation" or raja yoga). The two were inextricably linked, where the former was practiced for the sole purpose of preparing the body for long, seated meditation.

Yoga is just the sanskrit word for religion. It's slightly more nuanced than the english word though, because it's recognized that there are many different forms of yoga. For example, all of christianity is essentially one type of yoga.

One last note - if you decide to explore these books or if you already have and you're using your new golden rules - BEWARE "Nondualism" as described here -

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j34/stacey-intro.asp

Rationalizing everything down to "this is all an illusion" is harmful. There's way more to it than that, so keep questioning and observing your thoughts.

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